Inaccurate and negatively-biased information about ADHD bombards us from all sides, in public and professional media alike. Sad to say, most of it is just plain wrong. One recent review of information posted on TikTok concluded that only 40% of it is accurate, 60% is not. Selected stories about negative effects of medications, presenting statistics in a way that magnifies negatives, repeating outdated beliefs which have no basis in fact, examples are too numerous to count. Subscribe with your fa...
Aug 12, 2025•57 min
Do you (if you have ADHD) find it is easier to “think out loud”, to process your thoughts by talking them over with someone? Or even just a rubber duck perhaps? If you know someone with ADHD, have you noticed that they tend to talk through their thoughts? There is good neuroscience and “ADHD science” to explain why it works so well, much of it rooted in Dr. Russell Barkley’s model of Executive Functions. Some of the toughest challenges for people with ADHD are solving problems which have many pa...
Jul 18, 2025•58 min
Do you shudder when you hear the words “financial planning”? How do you answer the question “what would you like to be doing in 20 years? “ Do you wonder how you are going to be able to afford to retire and travel/have a big garden/have a woodworking shop/spend more time with family? (Pick any or add your own!) My guest today has developed strategies that fit the way our ADHD mind works; today you get to see and/or hear how to get started with one of them. Subscribe with your favorite podcast pl...
Apr 01, 2025•46 min
As a parent advocating for your ADHD/neurodivergent child at their school, have you found it difficult to jump through all the hoops required by our school systems in order to get help? If there was a way to develop and maintain a collaborative approach with your child’s teachers, with the goal of helping your child succeed in school, would you want to know how to do it? Great! You are in the right place! My guest Frances Coppa, an ADHD Coach, parent of a child with ADHD, a person with ADHD hers...
Feb 25, 2025•53 min
Visualize a tree, with roots, trunk and branches all visible. This is your Tree, your life past and present, ready to grow more branches, the ideas and plans and things you create with your life. The roots are the experiences you have had in your life, some good, some not so good; what have you learned from them? How have they shaped who you are today? They are the foundation for your core beliefs/passions/values, which are the trunk of the tree. The branches are the directions your life has tak...
Oct 29, 2024•54 min
“Just can’t get started“. “I did a bunch of things on my To-Do list…not the important ones but I got a lot done”. “I’m exhausted, can’t do another thing! (5pm)”. Does this sound like you? Join the crowd! At least 8 out 10 of us with ADHD (my guesstimate, probably more than that) have said that more than once. What gets in our way? Why is it so hard to get going on things we know have to get done? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS The answers are in Your Brain...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Daydreaming. Spacing out. Moving slowly, takes a long time to do anything. Always tired, even if they got a good night’s sleep. They can focus, get chores and homework done, it just takes them such a long time. This is a description of a child with Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, CDS (formerly known as Sluggish Cognitive Tempo). People with ADHD Inattentive Type can also have CDS, but not all of them do. And not all folks with CDS have ADHD either. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player A...
Aug 27, 2024•54 min
Which assignment do I work on now? Which is more important? When is that one due? These are questions every High School and college student has to answer every day. What if there was an app that consolidated all of those answers into a single list “do these today” and completing that daily list resulted in all assignments done by the due date, even long-range ones? AND it included other activities like sports, clubs, family time! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android...
Jun 11, 2024
If anyone had doubts about whether my guest or I have ADHD, in this episode of ADHD Focus we provided decisive proof that indeed we do. In a wide-ranging discussion we touched on girls/women with ADHD, student struggles with ADHD, the shame experienced by women with ADHD due to impossible-to-meet societal expectations of a woman, a housewife, a mother, and a person with a business – in any combination of those roles. And probably more…(I was in the moment, not taking (detailed) notes). Subscribe...
May 07, 2024•59 min
Do you: Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS flounder in the maze of school apps and programs simply to find your child’s assignments, or where to turn them in, or how they are doing in the class? Have heated discussions about missing assignments which leave both of you upset, frustrated, and hurt? Watch your child become overwhelmed, frustrated, anxious, or depressed struggling every day with this mess, or worse, just give up on school? You need to hear and/or ...
Apr 09, 2024•30 min
Micromoments of shame* – stepping over the box you were going to take upstairs as you go upstairs, passing by the unfolded laundry, discovering the clothes in the washer from two days ago…we have them daily. Maybe neurotypical folks do too, but ADHDers have many more every day. *this expression is not originally mine, a friend passed along a meme with that title. Apologies to the author, I do not know your name. Spot on concept. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android ...
Mar 26, 2024•59 min
Menopause and the hormonal swings leading up to it, perimenopause, often causes mood swings, brain fog, and always hot flashes. ADHD added to the mix compounds everything! Join Linda Roggli and I for a discussion of how hormonal shifts during this time affect ADHD, from the basic level of estrogen helping dopamine work better to what you can to get through this challenging time more smoothly. Listen and Learn ! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Linda Roggli i...
Jan 16, 2024•58 min
Inattentive ADHD, the Stealth Diagnosis. People with Inattentive ADHD tend to fly under the radar for years, decades even, women and girls more often (inadvertently) than men and boys. They are labeled as disorganized, always late, space case, overwhelmed and over-committed, the kid with no friends, the school dropout. After High School (almost half the kids with not treated for their ADHD drop out) life is even more of a struggle. How can these folks be identified earlier, so they can have the ...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr
Women with undiagnosed ADHD of either Type “pay” more for it than do men, this is the Female ADHD Tax. Women and men who have undiagnosed ADHD struggle with life; they have higher risks of relationship issues, involvement with unwanted pregnancies, lower educational progress, lower-paying jobs, AND higher incidence of anxiety, depression, and domestic partner violence (to name a few) than neurotypical folks, and women with ADHD have a higher “tax rate” than do men. Subscribe with your favorite p...
Dec 19, 2023•57 min
Do you feel that the treatments for your child’s ADHD and co-occurring Anxiety and/or Learning Disorders and/or Depression are not working for …something else but you don’t know what? That there are signs – behaviors, meltdowns, struggles with friends – that things are not yet OK, that something is being missed. You are totally spent by the end of each day, your house is a mess, you have given up seeing friends – in order that you can put 100% of your time and energy into helping your child. Sub...
Nov 17, 2023•58 min
Why do we ADHDers (which includes myself) toss one task aside and choose to do another? Why are some of us usually arriving late to meetings, dates, dinner at home? What we call Procrastination and Poor Time Management may actually have foundations in a different aspect of ADHD, Self-awareness. The strategies for changing those symptoms/habits is different than other proposed solutions when seen through the lens of Self-awareness. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Androi...
Jul 25, 2023•39 min
What is Asperger’s Syndrome anyway? Is it like autism? Can someone have ADHD and Asperger’s? How is that determined? In this show Thomas Brown PhD and I discuss the answers to these questions and more. Dr. Brown is one of the pre-eminent clinicians and authorities in the field of ADHD and associated disorders, I am privileged to have him as my guest today. Dr. Brown has published 30 scientific journal articles and written seven books on ADHD over his career as a clinical psychologist specializin...
Jun 27, 2023•55 min
“I have to help my 9th grader, she can’t get organized and her grades are way down.” “W hy does it take you so long to get your homework done?” “What can I do to help?” Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Do any of these questions sound familiar? Today my guest is Michelle Raz, a board-certified ADHD coach, her specialty is academic coaching. We will be exploring how to answer the above questions and how an executive function coach may be more valuable than tut...
Jun 13, 2023•56 min
Welcome to the inaugural Video production of ADHD Focus, available on YouTube at ADHD Focus Kristin Swanson 32323 Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS And coming soon to Roku and Firestick! The audio podcast of course remains available on most podcast channels. Do you know your ADHD-related strengths? So many of the resources for ADHDers talk about strategies to address weaknesses in our ADHD function, “impairments” to work on, how to get ahead of our deficits. ...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Why do people with ADHD need boundaries? Why do we typically have poor boundaries? Tamara Rosier joins us for a second time for an enlightening discussion about boundaries. Tamara Rosier, Phd is the Founder of the ADHD Center of Western Michigan and author of ‘Your Brain’s no Broken”. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Tamara’s book “ Your Brain’s Not Broken” explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You’ll finally understand why you think, feel, an...
Feb 21, 2023•45 min
“I can’t be late for work again! Where are my keys?” “Mom, where are my baseball shoes?” “It’s past midnight again, and I have that 7am meeting”. Do any of these sound familiar? Getting up earlier to get to work on time won’t work; setting a routine, a habit of where you put the keys when you get home will work. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Value your time more than anything else. More than your income, more than your rank in your profession, more than a...
Feb 05, 2023•57 min
Email, the Great Time Sink! As in your precious time goes down the drain…. It is almost impossible to resist jumping right into email first thing and pretty soon you are thinking “I am being productive! I am getting things done!” Well, yes…you are diverting your attention/energy from the tasks you had decided were important to do today…one of the finely honed skills of an ADHDer. Looking at the Inbox number drains energy right then and there! Alan Brown and I share tips on how to manage your Inb...
Oct 18, 2022•34 min
In this part II of the discussion begun last week with Elaine Taylor-Klaus, author of Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, we move on to parent coaching, helping your child learn the skills they will need to manage their time, attention, and emotions. The faulty neural networks in the brain in the centers for executive functions lead to these primary impairments of ADHD. The good news is that you can coach them to be their own CEO, doing so as a team, over the years from pre-school through H...
Sep 06, 2022•38 min
Have you been asking yourself these questions: “The treatments we have been doing help but it’s still a struggle every day, is it this hard for all parents?” “We think there is more going on than just ADHD (or) Anxiety (or) Autism Spectrum issues, where can we find help to figure that out?” “I know the doctor is trying hard but something is missing.” Have these thoughts occurred to you about your child? You are not alone. As many as 80% (or more) of people with ADHD have another condition which ...
Aug 30, 2022•33 min
This is Dr. David Pomeroy, your host of ADHD Focus, the podcast with the goal of exploding the myth-information about ADHD out there. Welcome back to round 2 of my discussion with Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach and creator of DigCoaching, about the basic elements of coping with ADHD which you may be missing. His podcast is available on attentiontalkradio, his website is www.digcoaching.com . Awareness is the key, not only becoming aware of the elements themselves but also of how you may be ignoring the...
Aug 02, 2022•29 min
How are you sabotaging yourself in dealing with ADHD? And you are, all of us with ADHD are doing it. Maybe you are working on organization, time management, getting things done. BUT if those are the only strategies you are using to deal with your ADHD you are missing the essential basics, the foundation which makes the strategies work. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach extraordinaire , host of the podcast ASDF on atte...
Jul 28, 2022•31 min
What can you be doing now to enable you to live into the vision you have for your future? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Yeah, I know. “Future? I have a tough time keeping me in line with tomorrow much less years away.” “Future? I’ll deal with it when I get there. And don’t you DARE say the word “plan”! That’s a dirty word!” Guess what? Even though you may not want to admit it, you do have at least a nebulous vision of what you would like to be doing 5,10,...
Apr 12, 2022•31 min
“I am just not motivated. Maybe my meds need to be adjusted.” “I do many things every day but not the ones I know I need to do”. “Why can’t I get going on school work/that big project/my taxes?” Motivation, energy to get started and then actually starting, is a BIG issue in ADHD. My guest today is Dr. Tamara Rosier, an ADHD Coach and founder of the ADD Center of Western Michigan. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Her book Your Brain’s Not Broken explores the ...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Why do people pick at their skin, pull out their hair, pop zits for fun? Is it part of ADHD? Can it become a part of someone’s ADHD? Can it be from ADHD medications? Answers are in this show! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS My guest is Roberto Olivardia, a psychologist in private practice in Lexington MA and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and an expert in many of the conditions which accompany ADHD. Skin-picking, nose-picking, scab-pulling, pulling hai...
Feb 22, 2022•32 min
Join Dr. David Pomeroy for the second show about life before and life after the diagnosis of ADHD and starting treatment, the stories of 2 people whose lives turned around . In the previous show you heard how Alyxx went from dissatisfaction with their job yet thinking they could not do anything else to creating a therapy practice and managing it as well as their personal life with great success. In this show we hear from Aron, a”life failure by age 32″ who had lost 7 jobs, was divorced and broke...
Jan 04, 2022•46 min
